Virginia

Virginia
General information
Continent	North America
Location	Atlantic Ocean
Societal
Population	English colonists
Affiliation	British Empire British Royal Navy East India Trading Company
Behind the scenes
First appearance	The Price of Freedom (Mentioned only)
Latest appearance	The Price of Freedom (Mentioned only)

"Four months ago, off coast of English colony name of Virginia, we saw smoke of burning. We sail to investigate. Nothing left but a burning ship, and wreckage in water. Only living thing was cabin boy clutching an oar, floating on water. Child told us he escaped death only by burrowing under bodies of slain. Pah! These cowards, they not pirates, but butchers!"

―Borya Palachnik to assembled pirates at Shipwreck Cove

Virginia was a territory in the Southeastern regions and east coast of North America. It was north of North Carolina. In 1607, the London Company established the colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World. Slaves from Africa and land from displaced native tribes fueled the growing plantation economy, but also fueled conflicts both inside and outside the colony.

History

Virgina (top left) on a map courtesy of the East India Trading Company.

When the mysterious rogue pirates preyed on the shipping in the New World, slaughtering their victims and breaking the Code of the Pirate Brethren, the Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court assembled in Shipwreck City to discussing how to handle that threat. The Russian Lord of the Caspian Sea, Boris "Borya" Palachnik, reported that he and his men discovered a burning shipwreck off the coast of Virginia, and the only survivor, a young cabin boy, escaped the grim fate of his shipmates only by hiding under the bodies of the slain.

Edward Teach's career as a pirate began when he fell in with Ben Hornigold, quite a pirate in his own right, who gave young Teach command of a sloop. As his beard grew longer, thicker, and blacker, so did his reputation. And from the greasy mass that hung to his chest, he assumed the cognomen: Blackbeard. For months he terrorized the Virginias and Carolinas, blockading the harbor at Charleston for weeks at a time.

At some point after the war between the Fourth Brethren Court against Lord Cutler Beckett and the East India Trading Company, a map courtesy of the East India Trading Company, which detailed the Eastern Caribbean and the North Atlantic, including Virginia, was included in a book written by Joshamee Gibbs.

Behind the scenes

Virginia was first mentioned indirectly as the "Virginias" in the souvenir book for Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean. The name "Virginia" first appeared on a "Map courtesy of the East India Trading Company" which detailed the Eastern Caribbean and the North Atlantic in the 2007 book The Pirates' Code Guidelines. In 2011, "Virginia" was named in the novel Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom by A. C. Crispin. A map of Virginia can be seen in A Pirate's Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas, an interactive treasure hunt in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.

Appearances

• A Pirate's Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas (Map only)
• The Price of Freedom (Mentioned only)

Sources

• Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Story of the Robust Adventure in Disneyland and Walt Disney World (First mentioned) (First identified as Virginias)
• The Pirates' Guidelines (First identified as Virginia)

External links

• Virginia on Wikipedia

Notes and references

Locations in Pirates of the Caribbean
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